Event Planning Associate

2 weeks ago

New York, United States Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Full time

**What We Do**

With residents and partners, LISC forges resilient and inclusive communities of opportunity across America - great places to live, work, visit, do business and raise families.

**Strategies We Pursue**
- Equip talent in underinvested communities with the skills and credentials to compete successfully for quality income and wealth opportunities.
- Invest in businesses, housing and other community infrastructure to catalyze economic, health, safety and educational mobility for individuals and communities.
- Strengthen existing alliances while building new collaborations to increase our impact on the progress of people and places.
- Develop leadership and the capacity of partners to advance our work together.
- Drive local, regional, and national policy and system changes that foster broadly shared prosperity and well-being.

**Position Description**

The Event Planning Associate will report to the Senior Director of Administrative Services, who reports to LISC’s CFO. The Event Planning Associate will be responsible for the logístical planning and management (venue selection, audio visual arrangement, and food and beverage, in conjunction with activities, transportation and other operational organization) of** all major LISC events such as leadership conferences, national staff meetings, annual program convenings, regional staff meetings, and retreats with LISC senior management.**

**Responsibilities**
- Collaborates with business units to effectively negotiate terms and conditions with event venues to meet service expectations and ensure appropriate expense management.
- Strong knowledge of events contracts.
- Coordinates and tracks all event related contracts for each event and provides recommendations to business units with regard to event management decisions.
- Creates and maintains financial event reporting documents for tracking of company’s overall event expenditures.
- Creating and managing event timelines and checklists to ensure all tasks are completed.
- Develops relationship with hotel venues nationally.
- Collaborates with the team to improve efficiencies of current systems and processes.
- Planning event logistics, including venue selection, scheduling, guest lists, seating arrangements, and transportation.
- Creating and managing event timelines and checklists to ensure all tasks are completed.
- Managing volunteers to assist with event duties.
- Assigning specific roles - Ensuring that all event logistics are handled, from setup to breakdown.
- Coordinating with staff and volunteers for event execution.
- Managing any issues that arise during the event promptly and effectively.
- Conducting debriefing sessions with national staff and volunteers to discuss what worked well and what could be improved.
- Gathering feedback from attendees, sponsors, and stakeholders.
- Knowledgeable about fair market value of events and meeting planning.
- Fostering and maintaining relationships with hotel vendors and other event planning professionals
- Preparing post-event reports for internal use.
- Perform other duties as assigned.

**Qualifications**
- Working toward a Bachelor’s degree and/or Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) with a minimum of 3 years of national meeting management.
- Full-time availability preferred, part-time availability will be considered
- Ability to collaborate with coworkers and key stakeholders across all sectors.
- Experienced in budget planning for large/small events.
- Experience collaborating with vendors within the hospitality industry (hotel, entertainment, F&B)
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
- High standards of integrity, judgment, and discretion.
- Ability to take initiative and work independently.
- Capacity to simultaneously work on multiple tasks and projects, set priorities for a challenging workload, meet deadlines, and act in a positive, solution-oriented manner.
- A strong team player with great organization, initiative, attention to detail and timely follow-through as well as high standards for accuracy and efficiency.

**Compensation**

LISC offers a competitive salary ($57,700 - $72,200; salary commensurate with relevant work experience and location) and excellent fringe benefits.

We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.

LISC IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND JUSTICE

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